More Information Than You Require

By: John Hodgman

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to the paperless (or "audiobook") edition of More Information Than You Require, a further compendium of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE assembled and illumined by John Hodgman, a Famous Minor Television Personality. It contains all of the half-truths, fake trivia, amazing made-up facts, and molemanic lore as the paper edition, narrated here almost entirely by Resident Expert John Hodgman, occasionally interrupted by this veritable extravaganza of illustrious and sometimes presumptuous guests: Dick Cavett, Jonathan Coulton, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robin Goldwasser, Rachel Maddow, Paul Rudd, Paul F. Tompkins, and Sarah Vowell.

PLUS: This recording includes ALL 700 MOLE-MAN NAMES as they were written and subsequently performed LIVE BEFORE A STUDIO AUDIENCE in an underground lair in Brooklyn, N.Y.

©2008 John Hodgman (P)2009 Penguin Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"In every way a continuation of Areas of My Expertise, except in the ways it's clearly superior....More Information Than You Require is exactly the tonic for these truth-challenged times: a transformation of pedestrian reality through the enlightened power of imagination and insatiable list-making." (The Onion A/V Club)
"I love this book so much I nearly read it." (Justin Long)

A insult to the History category

Would you try another book from John Hodgman and/or John Hodgman?

no

Would you ever listen to anything by John Hodgman again?

no

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of John Hodgman?

no

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

none

Any additional comments?

Very annoying I expected to learn something. Some historical events were clearly made up.

how do I return this for credit

omg I hate this book. trying to find out how to return it. it's horrible.

Not horrible, but not funny. I expected funny.

If you're a raving fan of John Hodgman, you'll probably enjoy this book. I thought I might have been one. It turns out I wasn't.

Kept waiting for it to get funny

akin to listening to my 12 year old nephew. started skipping chapters to see if it got funny. wish I had read the reviews before buying.

Sorry to write this review

I love John Hodgeman - but I guess it's in person. I found this painful to listen to: unfunny, predictable, and even annoying at the end with the list of random info events. I didn't get his first book, but it likely has the same style -- if you liked that, you may find this worthwhile.

Disappointed

I have a great sense of humor and I love satire. I could not listen to this book. It is just not funny.

Tedious

What begins as a infrequently humorous becomes tedious then painfully dull and finally unlistenable. Mr Hodgman found his perfect niche in commercials due to their short length; a book like this is unbearable. Even one of his co-narrators falls asleep during the reading of this book. Couldn't make it through the second audio download as I am not into self mutilation. Avoid at all costs!

I tried so hard to like this...

Okay I lie, I simply attempted to listen to it twice. At the sake of risking the "unhelpful" reaction to those who loved this book, I can only plead the truth: this book made me fall alseep at the wheel. Okay almost. I realized it was doing so and changed over to Molly Harper to perk things up. I would blame this on simple tiredness but it was only 6pm and I had just started driving thirty minutes earlier - I just cant give a good review to a book that made me go cross-eyed and swerve dangerously close to the shoulder. Round two didnt fair much better and after an hour of hoping the guest stars would perk things up I realized this book wasn't for me.

I can see how some would like it tho! If you like Wes Anderson or The Office I'm sure you'll adore this book. I myself am more of a Big Bang Theory meets Jane Austen kinda girl so this was a little too dry for my taste. For that, I will not give it the one star rating of doom and will probably recommend it to various friends with a smile.

MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE

AS YOU KNOW I PURCHASE A LOT OF AUDIO AND IN ALL CATEGORIES BUT THIS BOOK WAS A MISTAKE AND POORLY REPRESENTED . PLEASE GIVE ME A CREDIT IT WOULD BE WORTH IT.
RJSIVADR... SINCE 2007

Too much reference to smoking pot for me

Okay, I could only get through the first couple of chapters and a few things were interesting, the having two people narrate, for instance, but in the portion I listened to, he followed up on something interesting with a noninteresting fact related to "if you smoked pot"-kind of thing. Sorry; I've never smoked pot and just can't connect with you...